Word: giante
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time was to demonstrate the route's commercial importance and Levanevsky was given a huge, new, four-motored monoplane with crew of five and cargo of caviar, furs and mail. Having greater speed but less range than the single-motored pioneers of the route, this red and blue giant was scheduled to stop for fuel at Fairbanks, Alaska. By week's end it had not reached this far-northern outpost. Approaching the Pole in sub-zero temperature, it had battled tremendous winds and ice. One motor had failed. Then the radio went silent and it eventually became apparent...
Rushing to the scene, bystanders, two of whom had got out of the airliner when it had landed, found the Douglas ripped and tortured like a tin can in which a giant firecracker has burst. Pinned within it were four seriously injured survivors. The fifth survivor-a ten-year-old boy-was thrown free, escaped with bruises. Captain Dietz, also thrown free, was decapitated. The co-pilot and two passengers likewise met instant death...
...about six trillion miles). Human knowledge of the outermost fringes of this sphere is mostly due to the work of Astronomers Edwin Powell Hubble and Milton La Salle Humason, whose long looks into space are made possible by Mt. Wilson Observatory's 100-inch telescope. Even with this giant instrument, catching the spectra of far-off island universes has required all-night exposures for several nights...
What President Hotchkiss had read was the routine account of a transfer tax appraisal of the estate of Mrs. William B. Cogswell, widow of a rich Rensselaer alumnus who pioneered the Belgian Solvay chemical processes (soda products, coke) in the U. S., helped form giant Allied Chemical & Dye Corp. in 1920. Mr. Cogswell died in 1921, his wife last year in Manhattan. To her sisters, the middle-aged Misses Elizabeth and Florence Browning of Washington's Mayflower Hotel, the appraisal revealed that Mrs. Cogswell left a net estate of $4,266,548, plus two trust funds, each consisting...
...opinion of Dr. Hugo Eckener on the cause of the catastrophic burning of the giant dirigible Hindenburg, pronounced at Lakehurst three weeks after the disaster (TIME, May 31): A Report by the U. S. Department of Commerce corroborating Eckener's reasoning that atmospheric electricity (otherwise known as St. Elmo's fire or "brush discharge") accumulated on the ship must have ignited leaking hydrogen. Weighed and rejected by the investigating committee were theories of sabotage, broken propeller, ignition by radio spark, structural failure, lightning...